Sue is right of course - custom fields are exposed to the list of Mail Merge
fields, however formula fields are not. So my idea about parsing out the
names with a formula field won't work. You could always build a custom form
that can extract those names into custom First Person and Second Person
fields, which could then be added to the view so that it will appear in the
list of Mail Merge fields.

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"Colonel Blip" wrote:

Hello, Eric!
You wrote on Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:42:02 -0700:

Per Sue's comment on the start of the mailmerge - I am initiating this from
outlook.

I'll drop the Word group a message as well and see if anything comes up
there.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
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ELM I tried creating two formula fields in a Contact view to parse the
ELM first names into separate columns, but Word doesn't recognize custom
ELM fields in a Mail Merge.

ELM AFAIK, you'd have to code this in Word, not Outlook, to handle
ELM processing on existing fields. I'd repost to a Word newsgroup.